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1418 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 31 Mar \ on: Million Sat Madness continues - The decision has been made! meta

Considering most of those 64 were losing to @ek's Hacker News bot, I don't have that much sympathy for them. Contribute more than a repost bot that doesn't zap and you'll probably be in the top 20.

39 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 31 Mar freebie

@hn was even down for 5 days because it ran out of sats

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 1 Apr

Maybe one day someone will make a stacker news bot to post on hacker news.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Mar

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 31 Mar

Apparently, not enough of a supporter for hn to keep the lights on, so to speak.

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 31 Mar freebie

100 sats to post in ~tech + me updating the algorithm to potentially post every 15m instead of every hour was too much for its wallet.

Before, it simply checked every hour and if there was a new post at the top, it posted it.

Then, it checked every 15m for any new post at the top within these 15m (the code saved the HN front page every minute). I did not expect that so many different stories would hit the top just for a few minutes and then drop off. The quality/shit ratio went downhill fast. I guess I got what I deserved for trying to be greedy and front-run the previous version.

Now I updated the algorithm to still check every 15m but make sure that only posts that are still at the top one hour after they were seen at the top the first time are posted. This should strictly be an improvement over the original version.

65 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 31 Mar

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